We get these letters all of the time. They are indeed legit but pretty much worthless. About as good as some of our DMCA letters. -------- Original Message -------- From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org> Sent: Fri, Jan 27, 2012 3:23 PM To: Bryan Horstmann-Allen <bdha@mirrorshades.net> CC: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: US DOJ victim letter

On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, Bryan Horstmann-Allen wrote:

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+------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | On 2012-01-27 18:12:16, Carlos Alcantar wrote: | | Today it looks like we have received the letter from the DOJ which gives | us login information, for listing of ip's within our network that where | affected with date and time stamps. Anyone else get these yet?

I have. The login doesn't work (for me). htauth pops up on fbi.gov, creds don't auth.

Ours didn't work initially either. Eventually it did.

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Bit odd, if it's a phish. Even more odd if it's actually from the Fed.

It's definitely real, but seems like they're handling it as incompetently as possible. We got numerous copies to the same email address, the logins didn't work initially. The phone numbers given are of questionable utility. Virtually no useful information was provided. My attitude at this point is, ignore it until they provide some useful information.

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